News Briefs

The Cliburn Musical Awakenings program visits nearly 250 schools each year, to help stimulate the young music minds of children. Thomas L. Marsalis Elementary School, a campus without additional fine arts programs – aside from the basic requirements – received a music lesson of a lifetime. Top, classically-trained pianists spent some time with the school’s second through fourth-grade students. As part of the lesson, one of their second-grade classmates joined the elite group of musicians, on the bench, to perform a classical piece. Check out this news story from KDFW-TV Channel 4 below, featuring the Marsalis students’ performance: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/clip/10794449/talented-pianists-perform-at-disd-elementary-school

The next Open Mike meeting of the year will take place at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, at David W. Carter High School, 1819 W. Wheatland Road. The meeting will take place in the school’s library and will focus on Early Childhood Education led by Superintendent Mike Miles and Early Childhood Education Executive Director Alan Cohen. Open Mike meetings provide opportunities to engage with district chiefs and the superintendent in discussion about the direction of Dallas ISD and to pose questions to district leadership. For more information, visit https://www.dallasisd.org/openmike.

The Dallas Independent School District’s fourth annual STAAR Live Forum, in which academic content area and testing experts will answer call-in and e-mail questions from parents, will be held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Parents will be able to call in to (972) 925-3123 or e-mail their questions to STAAR@dallasisd.org during the forum to have them answered live by the panel of experts. The forum will be broadcast live from the Dallas Schools Television studio and can be seen by tuning in to the Dallas ISD Cable Channel 98 on Time Warner Cable System or Dallas…